Dinosaurs Attack! #1

That cover by Earl Norem says everything you need to know: a massive, wild-eyed dinosaur looms over a scene of pure chaos, its enormous reptilian gaze bearing down on a blonde woman in a lab coat and a wide-eyed man beside her, while panicked bystanders scramble near what looks like a bank of scientific equipment. IDW's 2013 adaptation of the beloved trading card series brings together writer Gary Gerani with artists Herb Trimpe and Earl Norem — a team well-suited to capturing this particular brand of gloriously over-the-top prehistoric terror. If you have any fondness for pulpy sci-fi catastrophe painted in vivid, dramatic strokes, this first issue is a very fine place to start.